The administrations attempts to confuse and hide global warming science have hit a major obstacle, this guy

Waxman quoted an internal API document that identified climate change as the group's highest priority. He said a key API tactic was to spread doubt about climate change science, exaggerating scientific uncertainty and downplaying the role of humans in climate change.

"What bothers me is that you seem to take the exact same approach in the White House," Waxman told Cooney.

Cooney, soft-spoken but increasingly red-faced as the hours went by, repeatedly stressed that his job was to align reports with administration policy, as reflected by a 2001 National Academy of Sciences report that indicated some doubt about climate change models.

He denied his aim was to sow doubt or that he had any loyalty to the oil industry, even as lawmakers pointed to some 181 changes he made to one document, which Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said "had the effect of emphasizing or exaggerating the level of uncertainty surrounding global warming science."

"How is what you were doing ... any different than the work of the so-called scientists during the whole tobacco debate when they were sowing doubt about whether there was any link between tobacco and lung cancer?" Welch asked.

It isn't any different. It's denialism. Luckily we have Waxman to pursue this kind of fraud. It met three criteria, false experts, selectivity, and the all important impossible expectations (the exaggerating uncertainty part) Maybe we should have future awards for behavior like this? We can give denialism awards for the biggest perpetrators of lies, and conversely, anti-denialism awards for those who fight against legitimate science. We could call them Waxmans! Except, most people wouldn't want a statue that looks like that guy.

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